Word: glamorous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wodehouse remarks, "The tragedy of life is that your early heroes lose their glamor . . . with Doyle I don't have this feeling." All Sherlockians would agree. After all, they are looking at their own dreams. That is why the detective and the doctor can never go out of style. And why, in 2087, they will still be as quotable as the day they were born in 1887: "Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot!" And why they will still be the subjects of criticism and appreciation 100 years from now. For Holmes, every reference is a boost. As he wrote...
Even the highest-ranking of University officials acknowledge surprise at the intensity of the media blitz, but not without wondering at the focus on all the glamor and glitz. Maybe they don't realize it, but they're partly responsible. They held a press conference in August to plug the fireworks and other festivities, but the academic symposia, arguably the week's most significant activities, are proceeding with no such promotion...
These trips of inward discovery take on apatina of glamor at Harvard, not in the leastbecause students here are much more taken in bythe "Harvard myth" than they would like tobelieve. To freak out in Cambridge is not just tofreak out, it is to freak outsignificantly. Perhaps it's just because Ilike writing that the Harvard-consciousness is sostrong, but I don't think so. I always have thesneaking feeling that I am living out someoneelse's Harvard novel or memoir, or that friendsthink they are somehow acting out the script tothe play of the human condition...
...work of history, Whelan's account of Robert Capa's life serves admirably, but we feel vaguely cheated by the end. Where is the spice, the variety and glamor which we feel stayed with this man every day of his life? Those who haven't heard Capa legends will just have to go to the photo offices of major newspapers around the world and get them first-hand
...protesters to maintain their vigil until they tired of the tedium. Without the threat of an impending clash or the excitement of a landmark legal case, the protesters' initial euphoria would quickly wear off. The endless speeches and slogans would become tiresome; the urban bivouac would lose its glamor. The demonstrators numbers would slowly dwindle until the most stalwart holdouts finally returned to their dorms...